Melissa Marturano

Melissa Marturano is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University (Ancient Greek
and Latin and Classical Civilization). She is currently a doctoral candidate at CUNY Graduate Center in
Classical Philology and teaches Classics in translation, film, and literature, and the Latin language at
Brooklyn College and Queens College. Melissa tutors extensively throughout New York in ancient Greek and
Latin.

Feminism and music are among her passions, as are the city of Rome and
science-fiction. Melissa resides in Brooklyn, where she is a (very) part-time
singer-songwriter, dabbles in HTML, practices conversational Latin, and is a collective member of
Books Through Bars New York City and Black and Pink NYC.
You can find her at her personal blog and
Blessing All the Birds, a blog dedicated to
analyzing Joanna Newsom's music from a feminist perspective.